Collaboratively Moving Towards Wellbeing

Most people struggle at some point in their lives, and unfortunately this burden is held solely by the sufferer. Having a trained professional to guide your through your journey, share your struggle, and ultimately help you reach a resolution can help alleviate the burden of suffering.

The staff at the Medical Psychology Center use a whole body approach to therapy. The therapist partners with the individual in creating a treatment focus to guide the therapeutic process. We seek to provide individuals with the skills to better manage and resolve issues which prevent a full and satisfying life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapies

This type of therapy involves understanding the nature of maladaptive thought and behavioral patterns, which maintain dysfunctional styles. Patient is actively involved in monitoring, recognizing and changing these patterns using psychological strategies and techniques.

Psychodynamic Therapies

Psychodynamic approaches focus on understanding how personal histories and development exert psychological forces on an individual which may keep in place certain unhealthy behaviors and emotions. The therapist works closely with the individual, couple, family, group to uncover these forces such that they may be dealt with directly and effectively. These dynamic forces frequently affect coping style or manner of reacting to illness and are neither desirable nor productive.

Behavioral Medicine

Bio-behavioral therapies are a very specific category of techniques, which teach individual skills to better cope with illness such as learning relaxation, biofeedback or hypnosis techniques for healing or using neurofeedback to train the brain. These approaches often involve individualized relaxation skills tailored to specific person’s needs and formulated based on personality style. The clinician works with the patient to develop skills to relax so as to better deal with stress. Biofeedback provides physiologic information for the individual to change dysfunctional patterns. Hypnosis is a technique to access unconscious aspects of consciousness to change maladaptive behaviors or reveal otherwise unknown aspects of self.